Who regards interim belt holders as "world champions"?

Probably just their own promoters.

 

First I've seen a fan say they consider such a title as a legit world title

It's really not

 

Interim belts should be viewed the same as alphabet belts. For better and worse.

If you don't consider an interim belt real(like Wardleys) thats fine I even agree with you. My problem is not considering it a title because of the word interim. At the same time while pretending "mandatory" is a real title.

 

Lol

 

Slide on over Floyd Patterson.

Luis Ortiz -- Two-time Heavyweight Champion.

 

No one except people trying to market a fight or promote their fighter.

 

I have known it in the past where you have a world champion and they can be sidelined

An interim title fight happened with 2 of the top contenders who fought

The interim champion then made another defence before getting to face the full champion who had been sidelined, so in effect the interim champion was defending the title and facing the mandatory

In that situation there, there wasn't really anything different in opponents or defences other than being called interim
They did later face the full champion

When you look at title defences for that title, the interim defences when the champion was out of action were listed as title fights for that title

Yes, I think an interim belt is a world title but not as highly regarded as a full title
Take for example the WBA world title and WBA regular world title
Very similar thing. As soon as the word interim was removed and replaced with regular people then adopted it and just to add they still then have interim


Only time a title is full is when there becomes one unified champion even if those belts then get split

 

Interim titles are more prestigious then regular because Regular has to exist seperate from the normal title. Interim its based on a situation.

 

None

 

Who thinks a mandatory is a title?
I've never heard this view, it's not a title it's just a position

Both are a load of old bollocks and simply a tool for promotions to use in advertising and for alphabet orgs to collect fees

Nobody takes them seriously, well nobody that understands the boxing landscape anyway

 

Those who constantly bring up "hes his mandatory" while not acknowledging interim belts. I think every fan can recognize or not recognize any title they want. But its a different story when you don't even acknowledge it. I acknowledge that somehow someway Stiverne got to rematch his only decent win for a vacant world title. That was very stupid and it shouldn't have happened and I don't consider Stiverne a champion but it did. Officially it will come up in the statistics and Stiverne will be introduced as a world champion.

Interims are used rarely and given out for a reason. Those reasons are not equal but neither are the reasons for giving out a non lineal alphabet belt. A title is worth what status it represents in the HW division and that should be judged seperate. For example many who wouldn't value Wardleys belt would value Benavidez's.

Interims are not used commonly though this is changing because fighters don't want to fight with no hardware on the line. Part of why fans don't have strong opinions on interim titles is they aren't common and you can't have opinions on something thats rare. The IBF just made their first HW interim last year.

"Nobody" takes any belt seriously except "undisputed" because modern fans have got an obsession with their only being one champion. No one in the 2020s boxing world takes anything seriously except unifiers. They don't take regional titles seriously, they don't take quality wins seriously, they don't take win streaks seriously they take nothing seriously except top 5 matchups and some would probably limit that to the top 2 or 3.

 

The difference between regular and interim is there will always be a WBA regular champion and it is a subordinate title. Interim belts do not have to exist and are given out because the real champ is not around and they need to fight this guy who will be considered champion if they don't.

Omg I used an official title to refer to someone. What a rebel.